G 284

Verse

18th cent. (?) Paper. 16 × 10 cms. 8 unnumbered pages (2 pages blank) written in roman script by an unidentified scribe. Bound in white boards with `On the Church Calendar' in ink on spine. Another hand wrote `Priest Adornan' on p. 1 upper margin. `Presented by the Very REv. W.P. Carmody / Dean of Down. 1929' inside front cover.

Page

1 Blighain [so] solus a dath. 10 qq. Followed (on the second page) by another extract Ata agan do mheabhair. 16 qq. Followed (on the fifth page) by (i) Fillius este Dei caelum bonus accipe gratis / feartach eifeachdach Dia cumasach buadhach. 6 lines. (ii) Tair eis an cearthar calma. 1 q.

8 The following: `Here is sett down y^e year y^e quarters, y^e months, and how many days in each month, with y^e numbers of y^e days in y^e whole year. also to know Easter for ever, the Golden number, the Epact for ever, likewise [sic] to know what time of the day or night the moon changes through the 12 months of the whole year for ever the dominical the 12 signes as they pass thorough [sic] a(...)us bodies, and all in perfect Irish which was never sett foorth [sic] in Irish before'.